Hi!
In Pisa we are switching to batman-adv for our mesh, we use the version packaged in openwrt.
But it seems that the output of vd is not conform to specification in this page http://www.open-mesh.org/wiki/batman-adv/VisAdv
especially the box representing a node is painted only for the node where you call 'batctl vd dot'
here you can see what is happening http://eigenlab.org/batman-adv_status.php to simplify visualization i am generating it with 'batctl vd dot -H'